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Yeardley

[ yahrd-lee ]

noun

  1. (Sir) George, 1587?–1627, English colonial governor of Virginia 1619–21, 1626–27.


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She gets emotional when she thinks about the Virginia lacrosse game in Yeardley’s memory, when her former teammates held up signs with the No.

For Sharon Love, Yeardley lives in her memory as someone who went out of her way to be good to others.

Yeardley Smith What you know her from: More like “what you know her voice from.”

Yeardley made similar efforts to strengthen Virginia's position on land against the numerically superior Indians.

If Yeardley did me right, he would put in jeopardy his office and his person.

Joel Yeardley unhappily did not long remain faithful to his convictions.

It was from this visit, as we apprehend, that John Yeardley dated his change of heart.

The occasion this time was the perplexity in matters of business in which Thomas Yeardley was involved.

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